Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guerrilla warfare between British garrisons on the northwest frontier and bellicose Pathan tribesmen, begun when a band of Afridi ambuscaded a party of Indian cavalry in the orchards outside Peshawar (TIME, Aug. 18), continued last week. Although Royal Air Force bombers peppered the tribesmen with as many as 50 tons of bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over...
...inforcements continued to arrive in the Peshawar area from Lahore, including a battalion of Seaforth highlanders? the old "Rosshire Buffs"?most feared of all British units by frontier tribesmen for having often and soundly whipped them in the past. The R. A. F. removed all white women from Peshawar, and then proceeded to demolish the villages of every tribe that had joined in the insurrection, allowing the occupants 24 hr. to take to the fields. To put the government of the frontier in the hands of the military, Viceroy Lord Irwin declared martial...
Eager to impress French readers with the "warlike spirit" of Germany, Le Journal reproduced the design of the new German coins, headlined the coin's motto: "The Rhine, Germany's River, Not Germany's Frontier...
...Scribner, under the title Lige Mounts: Free Trapper, this commendable novel tells of the making of a frontiersman, rather than the life of one. Its distinction does not lie in the story, which is adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is caught up in the frontier enthusiasm, joins three companions in St. Louis, goes up the Missouri to the Yellowstone and on up to the Marias for a winter's trapping. One of the men is killed in a brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other two in a battle with the Blackfeet, who were...
...four years to be Conservative Republican. Five-and-a-half months ago one José Pereira, hotheaded Republican state deputy in the Parahyba legislature, complained that sufficiently rich political plums were not falling into his lap, retired to his bailiwick, the mountainous city of Princeza on the Parahyba-Pernambuco frontier, and declared that Princeza and its surroundings were a new independent Brazilian state responsible only to the Federal government...